A New and Accurate Chart of the Bay of Chesapeake,...as far as the Navigable Part of the Rivers Patowmack, Patapsco and North-east...[right].

Robert Sayer and John Bennett with Anthony Smith.

 

Date of original: 1777

 

Dimensions: 9.75" x 13.98" (50% original), 14.62" x 20.97" (75% original), 19.49" x 27.96" (original size), 24.36" x 34.95" (125% original).  [Custom sizing also available.  Please contact us for more information.]

Coverage: Scale c. 1:250,000

Subject: Nautical charts - Chesapeake Bay (Maryland and Virginia) - Early Works to 1800

Notes: Oriented with north to the right.  Depths shown by soundings; soundings shown in fathoms.  Includes latitude and longitude.  Based on Walter Hoxton's 1735 chart, but much improved by information from Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson's Map of the Most Inhabited Parts of Virginia and Smith's own surveys.  Includes navigational sightings, towns, forts, names of landowners, plantations, some industries, and place names.  Includes directions for sailing into the James River, between the middle ground and the horse shoe, and from Love Point into Patapsco River; observations on the northeast current on the coast of Virginia and the Patowmack River.  Includes contemporary information: "Norfolk burnt January the 1st, 1776."

 

Alan M. Voorhees Collection - The Alan M. Voorhees Map Collection extends from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle through the U.S. Civil War period with the bulk of the collection consisting of pre20th century maps. In a variety of map formats, such as nautical charts and views, the collection focuses primarily on the Chesapeake Bay area and the development of Virginia within the larger geographical and historical contexts of Europe and America.